February 01, 2004

By: Yen Hung
Website: http://www.1st-in-cell-phones.com

ILOG Rule Engine Selected By France Télécom Mobiles for new short message services billing system

Leading European mobile phone operator France Télécom Mobiles (FTM) has chosen the ILOG Rules business rule software for Avantis, the rating engine for its new short-message services billing system. With the highest performance and smallest footprint among rule engines currently available, ILOG Rules, from ILOG®, will enable FTM to automate the service usage rating process for the Avantis system.

Developed in just six months by a team of seven people at FTM, Avantis is able to process up to four million call detail records (CDRs) per hour with ILOG Rules. This activity involves triggering thousands of rules per second, underscoring the high performance of the ILOG software component.

Supported by the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standard, short message services send short broadcast or highly personalized text messages to mobile phones. With the Avantis short message service, service providers and advertisers can send information like stock quotes, news and advertising to FTM customers. The rule support provided by ILOG will enable Avantis to rate CDRs in real time, processing information such as location and duration of call, number of recipients, success of transmission.

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Yen Hung contributes and publishes news editorial to http://www.1st-in-cell-phones.com.  A cellular phone industry resource featuring articles, comparisons and reviews of cellular phone and service plans.